Abstract: Apparatus for forming an SZ cable. The apparatus includes supply spools for providing a number of conductors to be formed into the cable, positioned at the upstream end of the apparatus, and a take-up reel for advancing the conductors downstream and for taking up the completed cable. A fixed guide ring having openings for passage of the conductors is located downstream of the supply means, and a rotatable guide ring is positioned downstream of the fixed guide ring. A first motor is provided for rotating the downstream guide ring. The apparatus further includes an accumulator tube having an outside surface for receiving turns of the conductors, with the tube being movable back and forth relative to the direction of travel of the conductors. An intermediate guide ring is carried by the tube adjacent its downstream end. The apparatus also includes a second motor for rotating the intermediate guide ring and the tube with the tube being movable between a downstream position and an upstream position.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for trimming a cable terminal lug to a predetermined size, inserting a bolt through a bore in the lug and assembling a nut onto the bolt in a single operating cycle. The apparatus includes means for moving a terminal lug from a first station to a second station during which the lug is trimmed, and means disposed at the second station for inserting a bolt through a bore in the lug and running a nut onto the threaded end of the bolt to a predetermined torque.